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Norway’s Halden reactor takes first step toward decommissioning
The government of Norway has granted the transfer of the Halden research reactor from the Institute for Energy Technology (IFE) to the state agency Norwegian Nuclear Decommissioning (NND). The 25-MWt Halden boiling water reactor operated from 1958 to 2018 and was used in the research of nuclear fuel, reactor internals, plant procedures and monitoring, and human factors.
Yoshiaki Oka, Ichiroh Yanagisawa, Shigehiro An, Shun-ichi Miyasaka, Tomonori Hyodo
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 76 | Number 2 | November 1980 | Pages 119-136
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE80-A19445
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Reaction rate and dose rate distributions due to streaming o f neutrons and gamma rays were measured in the nearly cubical cavity and in the ducts leading to the cavity at the fast reactor YAYOI. The experimental configuration was arranged in a way that streaming through the ducts occurred only after scattering in the cavity. This was done by making the duct axes perpendicular to the source radiation from the reactor core. The spectrum of the source was modified from fast to thermal by putting moderators in the beam hole of the core assembly. The spatial distribution of the neutron reaction rates and gamma-ray dose rates in the cavity is almost flat except for a small decrease at the wall. The cadmium ratios at the duct inlets and the attenuation profiles in the ducts are almost identical irrespective of the spectrum of neutrons entering the cavity. The two-dimensional discrete ordinates transport calculation by TWOTRAN-II has shown that although the ray effect is observed in the fast neutron flux distribution in the cavity, the calculated results agree rather well with the experimental distributions in the cavity and with the streaming in the ducts with regard to the results measured with the l/v type neutron detectors. Also, for the gamma rays the agreement is rather good between the calculation and the experiment.